Deus

(2 syl.). Deus ex machina. The intervention of a god, or
some unlikely event, in order to extricate from difficulties in which a
clumsy author has involved himself; any forced incident, such as the
arrival of a rich uncle from the Indies to help a young couple in their
pecuniary embarrassments. Literally, it means “a god (let down upon the
stage or flying in the air) by machinery.”